Classmate Profiles

Hail classmates from the 1966 graduating class at Wheat Ridge High!
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John Jones

Comment: Last data update:  2006
Email: no email address

Judy Jones (Bolton)

Comment: Last data update 2006

Julie Jones

Comment: No data update:  2006/2015

Leigh Jones

Comment: No data update:  2006/2015

Sandra Jones (Jones)

Comment: " AFTER 20 YEARS AT UPS I RETIRED AND HAVE A SMALL FARM IN FREDERICK CO WHERE I RAISE RED ANGUS COWS.


  I HAVE A DAUGHTER WHO IS IN THE NAVY AND TWO GRANDCHILDREN AGES 7 AND 9."





Last data update:  2006
Email: SANDYRUGBY@AOL.COM

Hank Kaanta

Comment: Last Data Update: 2006
Email: hakewk@gmail.com

Catherine Kalehuawehe (Bishop)

Comment: Last data update 2006

Gary Kalmbach

Comment: Last data update:  2006
Email: gwkbach@aol.com

MaryAnne Karuzas

Comment: No data update:  2006/2015

Gerry Kearby

Comment:











Deceased classmate and digital music pioneer Gerald Kearby died in 2012 in a Bay Area, Mid-Peninsula car crash. Gerry, who once turned down an offer from Steve Jobs to buy his company, died when his truck veered off a rural San Mateo County CA road and into a tree.





The accident ended a remarkable life and career that stretched from teaching award winning drum line performers to designing custom equipment for the Grateful Dead as well as Jefferson Starship and finally cofounding online music company Liquid Audio.





The loss of the 65 year old Pescadero CA resident left the music world mourning one of its characters and innovators.  A memorial website was overflowing with photos and remembrances. 





Longtime business partner and friend, Rob Modeste,57, said Kearby was on his way home from Redwood City and was a short distance from his house when the accident happened.  The men had been together earlier in the day for a meeting and then grabbed a beer at Gourmet Haus Staudt.  They said good bye not knowing they would not see each other alive again.





Kearby was born in Oklahoma and spent his early years around the


West, said Modeste.  He ended up in the Bay Area and, a drummer himself, was teaching drum line performers.  By the time he hit his 30s, he realized he wanted to do something else, about the time the two met in 1979, Modeste said.  In the 1980s they built custom audio equipment for Bay Area legends the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Starship.





In the mid 1980s the men saw the early potential of digital recording, jumped into the field and were bought out by a Swiss electronics firm.  Then in 1996 came the idea to sell music on the Internet.





Modeste and Kearby had been working on an idea for a website that would allow music fans to remix songs they loved.  But a conversation with a venture capitalist gave them the idea to simply sell songs online.  What followed was a rapid rise and then fall of their company Liquid Audio.  After losing control of the company in a nasty tussle with investors, Kearby resigned in November 2002.





Before that occurred, Steve Jobs had offered to buy the music startup.  The price, however, was less than the roughly $100 million the company had in the bank, Modeste said.  In the end Kearby declined the offer, saying the board of directors would never accept to be bought for less cash then they had in hand.





In 2005 Modeste and Kearby launched another venture, this one was called Neurotone and which specializes in audio therapy aimed at helping people with damaged hearing, like the rocker's curse of ringing ears called tinnitus.





Modeste said that they had spent their careers making people deaf and it was time to fix all the damage they had done.





Kearby was survived by his wife Nikki and sisters Carol Lundeen and Denise Marcouillier. (Last data update: 2006)